Gate or door hanging and operating device



(NoModeL) B. F. HALEY. GATE on DOOREANGING AND OPERATING DEVICE.

Patented NOV. 5, 1895".-

wanes aw AN ORIZW. EGRAHVAM. PHOTO-UTHQWASKINGTOKDC UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. I-IALEY, OF BEATTYTOVVN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO GEORGE S.BOlVERS, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

GATE ORDOOR HANGING AND OPERATING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent No. 549,451, dated November5, 1895.

Application filed June 28, 1895. Serial No. 554,296. (No model.)

To all whom it inmy concern;

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. HALEY, a citizen of. the United States,residing at Beattytown, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Gate and Door Hangingand Operating Devices, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in gateand door hanging and operating devices.

The essential objects which I have in view are to hang or suspend gatesand doors, as flood-gates and barn or other doors, upon an improvedhanging and operating device which readily sustains the gates or doors,which acts to lock them against being opened or cl0sed,'but which onbeing rotated rapidly and easily carries the gates or doors from open toclosed position, and vice versa.

My improved hanging and operating device may be rotated by hand, asthrough a crank, or by the action of vehicles driven from or toward thegates or doors through the instrumentalities of mechanism hereinafter tobe described.

, In the accompanying drawings, on which like reference-letters indicatecorresponding parts, Figure 1 is an elevation of my invention arrangedin connection with flood-gates; Fig. 2, an end view of the same; Fig. 3,a perspective view of a barn with my invention applied thereto; Fig. 4,an elevational view of the barn-door arrangement and operatingmechanism, and Fig. 5 a plan view thereof.

I will first describe my invention as applied to gates, and for thispurpose have selected the type of gate known as a flood-gate, for itwill be understood that whether the gate be a flood-gate or some othertype of gate is not material. 011 suitable posts A, connected by across-beam B, I mount in bearings O and D the hanging and operatingshaft E, formed into or provided with one or more spiral sections F F.On this shaft I hang the gates, one for each section, as shown in Fig.1, which gates are marked G and H, respectively. Each gate has a hangerI suspended on a straight portion of the hangershaft and each a hangerJ, suspended on the spiral sections F F. To open these gates or withdrawthem from over the stream, in the illustration given, the shaft E isrotated, say by the crank K, (or by other means,) and the hangers Islide on the straight portions of the shaft, while the hangers J travelon the spiral sections F and F and are forced along by the spiralcontour or formation of such sections. One spiral is right-handed andthe other left-handed, so that the gates travel from each other ortoward each otherthat is, opened or closed, according to the directionin which the shaft is rotated. The movement or motion is quick andsmooth and the action so easy that a child can operate heavy gates, andthe operation is noiseless. If the gates are closed the spiralformations act as locks for the gates, and they cannot slide unless theshaft is rotated, and hence when the shaft is still the gates cannot beshifted or moved. are locked, or if partly opened they are also looked.

I have shown my hanging and operating device in connection withflood-gates, because it is often desired to withdraw such gates fromover the stream, while it is also desired that they shall be lockedagainst all motions while over the stream, except that of swinging withthe current. It will also be understood that whether the gates aresingle ordouble or whether there is one section or more my inventionwill be embraced.

Referring now to the application for doors of my hanging and operatingdevice, I have illustrated the same in connection with barndoors as anexample, because such doors are large and heavy. The shaft E in thiscase is mounted on the side of the barn over the doorway, as shown, andeach door has its hangers, as shown at C D, and each. door G and H hasits hangers I for the straight portions of the shaft and J for thespiral sections F F, in the same manner as described with reference tothe gates. The doors are readily opened and closed, held open, heldclosed, or held at any intermediate point by my hanging and operatingdevice. It may be operated in any manner, but as some barn-doors will bevery high, to allow loads If they are opened entirely they of hay to behauled in, I have provided the shaft E with a pulley L, carrying a beltM, which runs over a pulley O, mounted near by in any convenient manner,as in standards I, secured to heavy blocks Q, let into the ground. Thispulley O carries a pinion R, with which meshes a toothed rack-bar S,connected to cables or chains T and U. The cable or chain U runs directto a pulley V, mounted on a crank or trip-shaft \V, while the chain orcable T runs over an intermediate sheave X and thence to the oppositeside of the pulley V. By driving'thc vehiclewhcel against the cranks ofthe trip-shaft the cables or chains are operated to reciprocate therack-bar and rotate the pulley O, by which the shaft E is revolved andthe doors opened or closed, according to which direction the trip-shaftis actuated.

lVhile I have shown two spiral sections and two doors, it will beunderstood that one spiral section and one door will equally carry outmy invention. This operating mechanism for the shaft E may also be usedin connection with a gate or gates to be operated instead of doors.

It will have been seen that with my improved hanging and operatingdevice the usual common trouble with doors or gates becoming dislodgedfrom the track on which they are suspended is entirely avoided, and thatthere is no such thing as jumping the track with this device; also, asabove remarked, that the device acts as a lock or fastener as well as ahanger and operator.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a gate or door, of a hanging and operatingdevice consisting of a shaft having a spiral section, and hangers tosupport said gate or door, one of which hangers travels on said spiralsection whereby the gate or door may be opened or closed or lockedaccording to the direction of rotation of said shaft or itsnon-rotation.

3. The combination with a gate or door, of a hanging and operatingdevice consisting of a shaft having a spiral section, and hangersconnecting the gate or door with said shaft and section respectively.

3. The combination with a gate or door, of a hanging and operatingdevice consisting of a shaft having a spiral section, and hangersconnecting the same to said shaft and section, a pulley belted to saidshaft, a rack bar arranged to rotate said pulley, chains or cablesconnected to said bar, and a wheel trip shaft with a pulley to whichsaid chains or cables are also attached.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesss.

BENJAMIN F. IIALEY. \Yitnesses:

OLIVER II. MILLER, V. N. MCNAIR.

